CYMRIC

BUILT BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST IN 1898.IN 1900 SHE MADE TWO TRIPS FROM LIVERPOOL TO CAPET0WN, CARRYING TROOPS FOR THE BOER WAR. SHE WAS SUNK IN 1916 BY THE GERMAN SUBMARINE U.2O, WHICH THE PREVIOUS YEAR HAD SUNK THE 'LUSITANIA' . LIEUTENANT WALTER SCHWIEGER WAS THE  U.20 COMMANDER AT THE SINKING OF BOTH 'LUSITANIA' AND 'CYMRIC' .ALSO IN 1915  THE U.2O HAD TORPEDOED AND SUNK SHAW SAVILL & ALBION LINE'S 'TOKOMARU',QUITE POSSIBLY WITH LIEUTENANT WALTER SCHWIEGER IN COMMAND.